The in depth story of a student project that paved the way for a society-level shift in how we use computers.

The Titan Supercomputer, in the US, has allowed scientists to study ice formation on wind turbines at a molecular level.
Wikimedia/Oak Ridge National LaboratoryOak Ridge National LaboratoryJuly 25, 2016

Moaning about weather forecasts is almost an Australian national pastime. But weather predictions have improved a lot, and with a new satellite and supercomputer, they are about to get even more reliable.

Engineer on the prowl between the big black boxes.
University of EdinburghApril 1, 2014

A new supercomputer, called ARCHER, has recently been launched. ARCHER is a Cray XC30, funded by EPSRC and NERC. It is more than three times more powerful than its predecessor, HECToR, and is hosted by…

Researchers in Japan have used the powerful K computer, one of the world’s fastest supercomputers, to simulate the complex neural structure of our brain. Using a popular suite of neuron simulating software…

Everything we see around us could be little more than bits in a giant supercomputer.
petertandlundDecember 3, 2012

As a cosmologist, I often carry around a universe or two in my pocket. Not entire, infinitely large universes, but maybe a few billion light years or so across. Enough to be interesting. Of course, these…

Today I’m annoyed at Facebook. Among the amazingly witty and touching postings from my friends and Amnesty International are “pages you might like” and advertisements for things I don’t need, especially…

Supercomputers that can analyse major data sets will one day be superseded by quantum computing.
AAPSeptember 20, 2012

Imagine taking a thousand copies of a phone book, shredding them all together, then trying to use the overlapping pieces to reconstruct a copy. This is a simple problem compared to assembling the human…